How to Watch The Syfy Network Online & Streaming for Free

September 26th 2017

Science Fiction is often a hit or miss endeavor. Sometimes your life is changed by it ala Star Trek, Star Wars or Doctor Who. Other times it can come off as corny, unbelievable and gratuitous. Syfy Network often deals in the latter but once in a while they break away with an amazing series that can’t be ignored like The Magicians, The Expanse or Killjoys. Oh, and we can’t forget about Sharknado! The key is getting actors and show creators to commit to a television show on the network. As a Syfy fan myself, I hope they create more great series’ moving forward. We’re rooting for you, Syfy!

Syfy has several different streaming options online. Here are a few of them.

WATCH SYFY LIVE WITHOUT CABLE ON DIRECTV NOW

One of the newest streaming options, DIRECTV Now’s service is a great option for those without cable hoping to watch SyFy and the other hit shows on the network. You get a 7 day free trial and there are no long term contracts, so this is a great way to watch SyFy as well as dozens of other networks. Check it out!

Watch Syfy Live with Sling TV

Syfy shows are now on Sling! Sling is a cable alternative that includes networks such as USA, AMC and TBS among many others for a low price and doesn’t require a commitment. Head over there now to check it out and sign up for the free seven day trial.

Are Syfy Shows on Netflix or Hulu?

Hulu does have a page for Syfy shows but if you click on any of them you’re greeted with a “Not Available” page. So it’s safe to say that Syfy series re not on Hulu at the moment. Maybe they will be in the future or were in the past but as of this writing they are not available to stream.

Netflix does have a few older Syfy shows so be sure to search for those if you’re interested. You won’t find most of your favorites, though and newer Syfy shows are not available on Netflix instant.

Watch SyFy Series Online at Syfy.com or with the Official Syfy App

If you head over to SyFy.com you’ll see that they have full episodes of your favorite programs available for streaming. Unfortunately once you click into any of them you’ll have to log in with your cable subscription log in. This means that you have to already subscribe to SyFy through Comcast or some other cable company to get access. Either way this is probably the best way to stream Syfy online for free as long as you have the subscription already.

The SyFy app, Syfy Now works the same way but in app format. You can download it for any device and start streaming your favorite SyFy shows for free but you do have to log in and prove yourself. SyFy doesn’t have a stand alone spp or service just yet for cord cutters. We’ll update this if that changes.

Stay Away from Illegal Syfy Live Streams

It may be tempting to simply pirate all of those SyFy shows that you want to watch instead of downloading them legally. Most of the time you’ll run into viruses and poor resolution video so this probably isn’t an option we can wholly recommend engaging in.

Shows Streamed on Syfy

Download Full Syfy Episodes on Your Favorite Digital Retailer

If you’d rather own the SyFy episodes you’re looking to stream head over to Amazon, iTunes or Google Play to download full episodes of any show you want. They’ll cost you two to four dollars a pop but you’ll own them forever and can even watch them offline, which might appeal to you and your use case. You also won’t have to worry about where your shows are streaming online in the future, which can be a headache these days.

app requires windows 10 for pc and was extremely difficult to find on their website, log in page only takes you to tv provider log in page. I had to search for “syfy now app” to get the right page. What’s more disturbing is that over the holiday season, streaming was accessible and in January they reverted to tv logins. it seems they are trying to tease cord cutters and cord nevers into tv subscriptions. I wonder if they’d be interesting in buying some federal monuments off me.

Shame that there’s no streaming service for SyFy. Seems like one of the first channels that would go for a digital subscription. It can’t be too far into the future that we finally get cable a la cart via online streaming.

My son and daughter-in-law don’t even have “TV” anymore. They have high speed cable internet, Netflix, Hulu, and an Amazon Fire Stick with Kodi. Cheaper than Cable or Satellite and for their preferences better.

Of course, He’s a Software Developer and she’s a Chemistry PhD so their nerd level is exponentially higher than average.

I dumped TV in 1998. Got cable for a two year contract in 2014 and 2015 because my daughter’s had never had access to TV. They were obsessed with it for 6 months or so, and then quit watching because too many commercials. Now we’re back on streaming services and my 18 terabyte media server. I have every single English sci-fi, horror, and fantasy show ever made, and roughly 60% of all comedies. Haven’t given the full treatment to drama and thrillers, but have all the major titles. Also thousands of movies.

Impressive, that must have cost a bit of cash. I keep all my favorites shows on my media server by converting the DVDs using Handbrake. It’s so fast finding them now instead of looking through rows of disks.

Drowbonian101

March 13, 2017

Oh yeah, no doubt. Before I went to a media server solution, I had bookshelves filled with DVD’s. When I got married, I was a in a near-constant state of fury over the fact that my wife and kids wouldn’t put discs back in the cases, or put them back in alphabetical order. One day, my wife “dusted all my shelves” and took down all my discs and then put them back in completely random order. I had thousands. I finally gave up on discs after that.

Handbrake is great software! I didn’t have it when I started my media collection. Also, computers were slower, then. It took forever to rip discs, and I built a tower system just to do it with 4 DVD drives. I loaded four discs up every morning, and every day when I got home from work, and every night just before bed. And I ripped discs for nearly a year to get my DVD collection into a media server — I had a 2x Zeon Dell server tower with 1 TB of disc space at the time, and I used SuperC to convert to AVI containers with XVID codec). I eventually gave up ripping discs and just found torrents with the remainder of my collection on it. Really, spending a year to move my DVD collection to a server was a colossal waste of time when you consider that other people already did the same thing.

I’ve since moved to a NAS with built-in media server that has a lot more disk space. And I wrote custom software that just scans my folder structure, quickly analyzes whatever video files I put out there, and then shells an FFMPEG task if necessary to convert it to .mp4 with h.264 and acc codecs. Then it replaces the offending file with my “standardized” file. Nice thing about shelling with FFMPEG is that a lot of files I get are mkv and I can just copy the stream into a new container without re-encoding if it happens to already have codecs I like.

If You have a Roku you can watch on Syfy Now. I have Playstation vue instead of cable but for some reason on my Roku it hasnt asked me to log in and Im just watching episodes. Not really illegal since I pay for the channel through Vue anyway but I have found that many cable apps on Roku dont demand passowrds right away.

I have sling and its asking me to log in with a TV provider, but Sling is not on syfy list of options :/ technically I can watch on demand on sling, but it it only has current season unlike the app so… lucky you?

I know I sound like a commercial. But I had sling until I found out I get more channels for less with PS Vue. Its 29.99 for more channels than Slings 40 dollar orange and blue plan. So thats great as long as you’re in the area where they have it for 29.99. When I lived in Chicago Ps Vue was more expensive.

well I don’t have sling’s $40 plan, I only have the $25 plan which has all the channels I wanted (I don’t watch all that much TV, heck for a while I did just fine with Hulu and netflix combo), while acess slim ps vue has fewer channels at $5 more, so… sling it is. (I haven’t found ps vue on a list of providers either, when trying to register for syfy now, so… it honestly sounds like you are a lucky recipient of a glitch)